Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set -> OK, OK! Message-ID: <3139@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 21 Jan 91 19:01:28 GMT References: <1991Jan13.113349.21937@ims.alaska.edu> <11305@lanl.gov> <1991Jan14.013815.11419@ims.alaska.edu> <11314@lanl.gov> <1991Jan14.203207.20436@zoo.toronto.edu> <00054@meph.UUCP> <1991Jan21.145936.7076@phri.nyu.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 17 In article <1991Jan21.145936.7076@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: | Given the move towards kernel bloat, I fear that one alternative we | might see some day is moving file name globbing into the kernel. "Let's | let namei do it; namei does everything!" Blech. Careful, this one might make some sense. Certainly the number of systems calls and stuff it takes to do globbing, and the problems with various distributed filesystems would indicate room for improvement by doing it that way. I am *not* suggesting that this be done, but it would make a great procedure to have in shared libraries rather than in every shell. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "I'll come home in one of two ways, the big parade or in a body bag. I prefer the former but I'll take the latter" -Sgt Marco Rodrigez